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I give you the ole reddit pedant trap: 1. Ask your question 2. Create a new account and give your question a wrong answer (or point out mistakes or whatever)
by pluc 4y ago
I give you the ole reddit pedant trap:
1. Ask your question
2. Create a new account and give your question a wrong answer (or point out mistakes or whatever)
3. Watch as 90% of pedantic idiots focus fire on that guy who clearly doesn't know things
4. Profit
- turminal 4y agoThis is (sort of) what Cunningham's law is about.
- shagie 4y agoThe Purple Beggar - http://thecodelesscode.com/case/170 http://thecodelesscode.com/case/170
- agumonkey 4y agoalso xkcd 'someone is wrong on the internet'
- dpkirchner 4y agoThis sounds like a great opportunity for a SaaS. The product lets you write a question and one or more wrong answers or nitpicks, then posts the answers from random accounts after some random delay.
- layer8 4y agoIt could be implemented by training a GPT-3 on downvoted SO answers.
- weberer 4y agoSounds similar to the "Linux is gay" technique. http://bash.org/?152037 http://bash.org/?152037
- Fred27 4y agoThe flip side is that if someone asks a question like "how do I do X in Windows 10?" there will always be some dull idiot who says "uninstall it and install linux".